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This article presents an overview of a transformable Factory Cockpit that supports all aspects of decision making in factories from short term operations to long term strategies. It integrates elements of classical Business Intelligence Systems with methods of Virtual and Digital Factories. Hereby, it provides small and medium sized companies with real time transparency regarding production performance and enables rapid development and evaluation of alternative configurations of the production system. The prototype will be implemented in September 2008.

This market survey gives an overview on software for the support of knowledge management. The survey overlooks the span from specialized search engines to integrated knowledge management systems with a broad range of functions. The investigated software supports community-oriented approaches as well as information retrieval. Usage possibilities are as different as the heterogenous requirements of enterprises and organizations for knowledge management. Therefore a direct comparison between the investigated tools is not useful.